10 "And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,"
Lord, we thank you for your deliverance. Thank you for making a promise and keeping it, a promise to redeem a people to yourself, to save and deliver your people. Thank you for preparing a home for your people, a home in your presence. Thank you for reminding us that we cannot earn our salvation in any way but that we depend on what you have done. We do not build the house, we do not provide the goods, we do not collect the sustenance, yet we are filled with all we need.
12 "then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."
Thank you for your deliverance. While we were yet bound to sin Christ died for us. While we were yet offensive to you our Savior came to die in our place, to conquer death, hell, and the grave by going through them on our behalf. Thank you for removing us from the death sentence proclaimed to Adam and for redeeming us into the new Adam.
13 "It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth."
Lord, how quickly we bring shame to you. How quickly we reject the claim that you are the one true and mighty God. Thank you for proclaiming your might and your jealousy. Our rejection of you day after day earns nothing but your wrath, poured out on your own son. We confess that we are quick to pursue other gods. We are quick to place our ideas, our values, our desires on the throne. Turn our hearts and bind them to you. Create faithfulness in us.
16 "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers 19 by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised."
As we see your commands how much more do we see our sin. Yet we see also that you have provided a Savior who has kept the demands of your Law perfectly on our behalf. Lord, give us a desire to pursue righteousness. And we pray that you will draw us along in this Christian walk, that we will make our feeble efforts at obedience and that when we fall we will turn to you in love and trust. We thank you for making Christ our forerunner, entering into the good land you have given to us. And we thank you that he will bring us into that heavenly realm as the children adopted by your good pleasure.
20 "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?' 21 then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.22 And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. 23 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. 24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. 25 And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.'
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